Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:40:14 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: courier-imap Message-ID: <20050421074014.GA23284@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050420170020.GC645@numachi.com> References: <20050420145207.GC60384@ns2.wananchi.com> <20050420170020.GC645@numachi.com>
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* Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> [20050421 10:03]: wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:52:07PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > Hello Sysadmins,
> >
> > Does anyone have any clues as to how I can easily limit access to my
> > imapd daemon to just a few hosts?
> > I am running courier-imap but looking at /etc/inetd.conf, I don't
> > see how I could put it in there and hence use hosts.allow to control
> > access. Google has not helped much, but again I may be searching using
> > wrong keyword.
>
> I think courier-imap uses the qmail-based tcpserver invocations,
> does it not? If so, you could use a tcprules database to impose
> those sort of constraints.
I have never used qmail in my life, so I cannot answer that. However
the easiest method I have found out is using a packet filter.
If you get one of those HOWTOs on the net on how I can achieve the
goal, please let me know.
Best regards,
Odhiambo Washington
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